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User Manual - Page 4
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Changing Your Password 48 Turning Off the Drive Lock Feature 50
7 Managing and Customizing the Drive 51
Checking Drive Health 51 Erasing the Drive 52
Using the Drive Erase Function 53 Using Five Invalid Passwords 54 Registering the Drive 57 Restoring the WD Software and Disk Image 58 Setting the Drive Sleep Timer 58 Using the WD Quick View...
User Manual - Page 10
...your computer. Your My Passport drive is on the drive:
WD Drive Utilities WD Security WD SmartWare
Figure 3. It includes the following topics: Connecting the Drive Getting Started with the WD Software
Connecting the Drive
1. MY PASSPORT ULTRA METAL EDITION USER MANUAL
12 Connecting the Drive and Getting Started This chapter provides instructions for your drive. Connect the drive to close it...
User Manual - Page 15
...internal hard drive or drive partition, or a local direct-attached external hard drive:
Selecting...PASSPORT ULTRA METAL EDITION USER MANUAL
e. If you want to skip the setup procedure for your initial backup for access by the WD SmartWare Pro software:
You must configure your Dropbox account for access by the WD SmartWare Pro software before you want to back up files from a local hard drive...
User Manual - Page 16
... that you want to :
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After configuring your Dropbox account for access by the WD SmartWare Pro software, the Dropbox icon signifies that the backup source device will be your remote Dropbox folder:
b. If the selected backup source has more than one internal hard drive or drive partition, or external hard drives, use the backup source device...
User Manual - Page 22
... check for WD SmartWare software updates Configure a remote Dropbox folder for each WD SmartWare display provides easy access to back up and retrieving files and making your backup, retrieve, and settings tasks. Whenever you want to abbreviated online help screen.
WD SMARTWARE SOFTWARE FUNCTIONAL OVERVIEW - 17 MY PASSPORT ULTRA METAL EDITION USER MANUAL
The . . . Instant...
User Manual - Page 34
... for specifying the number of the Settings tab display.
Software Updates button Displays the Software Updates dialog for enabling/disabling the option that you want to keep for retrieved files.
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Settings Tab Display
See Figure 11 and Table 4 for access by the WD SmartWare Pro software. Settings Tab Functional Description
Display Component...
User Manual - Page 36
... the Enable Backup button backs all your important files to back up.
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4 Backing Up Files
1 This chapter includes the following topics: How the Backup Function Works Backing Up Files
How the Backup Function Works
The WD SmartWare software automatically backs up all of them up to the selected backup source device Existing...
User Manual - Page 37
..., click Set Backup Frequency to display the Backup screen (see Figure 9 on page 24). 4. MY PASSPORT ULTRA METAL EDITION USER MANUAL
Selecting the Dropbox option displays the Dropbox icon to signify that a light-blue background highlights the selected device. If the selected backup source device has more than one internal hard drive, multiple drive partitions, or external hard drives, use...
User Manual - Page 43
... any files could not be to relegate the device to suit your request and disable the backup
14. Click External Hard Drives and select the best drive to long-term archive storage and:
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11. b.
If you backed up . The blue background for all running applications-including your open files
Closing all of...
User Manual - Page 44
... a local hard drive or to a remote Dropbox folder:
By default, the computer option is generally a five-step process:
1. Select the backed up files from . 3. Retrieve the files. Retrieving Files
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5 Retrieving Files
1 This chapter includes the following topics: How the Retrieve Function Works Retrieving Files
How the Retrieve Function Works
The WD...
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...:
3. If the selected retrieve destination device has more than one internal hard drive or drive partition, or multiple external hard drives, use the backup target device selector under the device icon to specify the one that a light-blue background highlights the selected device. MY PASSPORT ULTRA METAL EDITION USER MANUAL
Selecting the Dropbox option displays the Dropbox icon to step 4 on...
User Manual - Page 73
...or support organization
TROUBLESHOOTING - 68 To create partitions larger than 32 GB in Windows. MY PASSPORT ULTRA METAL EDITION USER MANUAL
Installing, Partitioning, and Formatting the Drive
How to
Partition, and format a WD drive on Windows (8, 7, Vista) and Mac OS X Convert a Mac OS X GPT partition to an NTFS partition in Windows 7 or Vista Download software, utilities, firmware updates, and...
User Manual - Page 74
... computer is connected to the Internet Manually, whether your computer is installed automatically when you connect your My Passport drive to your computer must be connected to the Internet: 1. MY PASSPORT ULTRA METAL EDITION USER MANUAL
1A Installing the SES Driver If you do not install the WD software, you should install the SCSI Enclosure Services (SES) driver on Windows computers to keep...
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6 Managing and Customizing the Software 26
Checking for Software Updates 26 Configuring Your Cloud Service Account 27 Uninstalling the WD Software 28
7 Using the Drive with a Mac Computer 29
Reformatting the Drive 29 Restoring the WD Software and Disk Image 29
8 Troubleshooting 30
Installing, Partitioning, and Formatting the Drive 30 ...
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... the Drive Getting Started with the WD Software
Connecting the Drive
1. MY PASSPORT ULTRA METAL EDITION USER MANUAL
12 Connecting the Drive and Getting Started This chapter provides instructions for your drive. Connect the drive to your computer. The WD software
installs the proper driver for connecting the drive and installing the WD software on your computer as an external storage...
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